Map of Barry Hannah (Google Books)
Barry Hannah was born in Meridian, Mississippi on April 23, 1942. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Mississippi College in Clinton in 1964 and a master of arts in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. He taught writing at the University of Mississippi for over 25 years. He also worked as writer in residence at the University of Iowa, the University of Montana-Missoula and Middlebury College in Vermont. During his lifetime he wrote eight novels and five short story collections including Airships (1978), Ray (1980), Never Die (1991), Bats Out of Hell (1993), High Lonesome (1996), and Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). His first novel, Geronimo Rex, was published in 1972 and received the William Faulkner prize for writing. In 2003, he was given the PEN/Malamud Award. He died of natural causes on March 1, 2010 at the age of 67.
Places mentioned in this book Maps KML
 | Water Valley, Mississippi - Page 136 this rendezvous with a boy from Water Valley, Mississippi, and the gun he sleeps with in a tree, making love to it sixteen thousand miles from home. ... |
| Tallahassee - Page 169 She was a Florida beauty, Tallahassee, just a slight quarter inch heavy with winter flesh, that's all, a slight quarter inch. ... more pages: 170 177 180 181 |
| Bay St. Louis, Mississippi - Page 46 That is the kind of conscience you had in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where you were always close to folks and creatures. ... |
| Grand Forks - Page 169 I had done my duty in Grand Forks and we talked in a bar. She and her girlfriend were both in cowboy boots. The woman I was interested in had very ... more pages: 173 |
| Boca Raton - Page 41 She was wearing Swanly's old jersey, what was left of it, and the vision was so awful he fled almost immediately and was not right in Boca Raton nor ... |
| Kalamazoo, Michigan - Page 20 No money no Kalamazoo never bring me back in, damn them, yes I seen it what it come down to in your modern world. ... more pages: 19 |
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| Hattiesburg - Page 61 I believe she was currently over in Hattiesburg failing at something menial. Her ex-husband was in prison. Her grandfather, Blackie's Pa, ... |
| Colorado Springs - Page 170 |
| Amarillo - Page 142 |
| Columbus, Mississippi - Page 177 |
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| Chicago - Page 218 |
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| Kansas City - Page 119 Then I got back from a trip to Kansas City one afternoon. Jane embraced me at the door, all bright, and said she had a surprise for us. ... |
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| Jacksonville, Florida - Page 178 In the fall I got a call from my nephew who had heard from a musician that she was killed in a robbery of her bank in Jacksonville, Florida. ... |
| New Orleans - Page 177 |
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| St. Augustine - Page 55 There was no sidewalk so they walked a path through the old St. Augustine grass as white trash would do. The woman, Minkle, wants something more with ... |
| Los Angeles - Page 189 |
| San Francisco - Page 189 |
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